The Nine-Colored Deer tried to rush over and stop it, but the beam of golden light and cold energy held the terrifying power Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had amassed over a million years. It formed a powerful energy field that shut the deer out, leaving it no way to get close.
"Oh no, no! How did this happen? Why are her body and mind so fragile? She can't even withstand a tenth of my energy?"
At the bottom of the lake, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm panicked too. Through their mental connection, he could clearly sense how close Xiao Wu was to death.
He had been thinking only of the wonderful future awaiting him after the Sacrifice succeeded. He had completely underestimated the limits of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's body during the early stages of Human Transformation, and the gulf between his power and Xiao Wu's.
What do I do? What do I do?
Once the Sacrifice began, there was no reversing it.
But if he did not stop, his immense energy would burst Xiao Wu apart long before the Soul Ring finished forming!
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm rolled frantically around the lakebed. For the first time in his million years of life, he felt utterly helpless and afraid.
He did not want to die, much less drag down the host on whom he had pinned all his hopes!
At that hair's-breadth moment, the Nine-Colored Deer moved.
It could not force its way through the energy field, but it had another way.
It raised its head and gave an ethereal cry. The starlit antlers atop its head suddenly blazed with unprecedented brilliance!
Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet, black, and white swirled together into a solid, warm beam of nine-colored light. Rather than strike the energy field, it spread like